{"product_id":"ai-con","title":"Ai Con","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The blizzard of excitement, misinformation and pure hype around AI has driven many of us to want an honest guide. If, like me, you’re one of those many, you need to read this book'' BRIAN ENO\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs AI going to take over the world? Have scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think on its own? Is it going to replace all our jobs? Are we about to enter an age where computers are better than humans at \u003ci\u003eeverything\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe answers to these questions, as the expert authors of \u003ci\u003eThe AI Con \u003c\/i\u003emake clear, are ''no'', ''they wish'', ''LOL'', and ''definitely not''. In fact, these fears are all symptoms of the hype being used by tech corporations to justify data theft, motivate surveillance capitalism, and devalue human creativity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePacked with real-world examples, pithy arguments and expert insights, \u003ci\u003eThe AI Con \u003c\/i\u003earms you to spot AI hype in all its guises, expose the exploitation and power-grabs it aims to hide, and push back against it at work and in your daily life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A book to inoculate your mind against Big Tech’s AI utopian hype’ \u003cb\u003eYanis Varoufakis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Hanna and Bender provide the clearest picture yet of what AI is, what it is not, and why none of us need to accept it’ \u003cb\u003eTimnit Gebru\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A powerful antidote. The authors show that these technologies will serve to deepen existing inequalities, and further ''enshittify'' life and work for the vast majority of people’ \u003cb\u003eGrace Blakeley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Truly eye-opening. An indispensable “field manual” for those who want to fight for a more humane economy and a better society’ \u003cb\u003eHa-Joon Chang\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Fascinating and thought-provoking’ \u003cb\u003eJohann Hari\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A must-read’ \u003cb\u003eAleks Krotoski\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57395702038910,"sku":"NW9781847928610","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781847928610.jpg?v=1778625964","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/ai-con","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}